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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ada -> C translator
Date: 1997/04/04
Date: 1997-04-04T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Apr4.083333.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.860115718@merv


In article <dewar.860115718@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> To this you should add a fourth question:
> 
> 4. Do you want the C code to be portable?
> 
> If you get into the business of generating very low level C code, then
> it may well be highly target dependent (e.g. have made decisions about
> representation of primitive data items).

I was under the impression that ANSI C did not provide anything
equivalent to Ada tasking.  Therefore I thought that a translator
would have to choose between portability and feature completeness.

Larry Kilgallen




  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-04-04  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-03  0:00 ada -> C translator Gabriel Monaton
1997-04-03  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-06  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00             ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-07  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` William Clodius
1997-04-09  0:00                     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1997-04-09  0:00                     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09  0:00                         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-10  0:00                             ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-09  0:00                       ` William Clodius
1997-04-04  0:00       ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-05  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1997-04-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-06  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
     [not found] ` <lvlo6iwws8.fsf@sulu.fl.ensco.com>
1997-04-17  0:00   ` Lance Kibblewhite

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